Mathura – Part 3
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Then Lord Krishna posed a question to a young, beautiful, and lotus-eyed hunchback girl carrying a cup of sandal-paste as she walked on the road.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Who are you? Who is the man that loves you? For whom do you carry this sandal paste? Give it to Us. If you do, you will attain eternal good fortune.
The maidservant said: O most handsome of men, I am a maidservant. O noble-hearted one, My name is Kubja. I made this sandal paste with my own hand. Kamsa, the king of the Bhojas, likes it very much. I am Kamsa’s maidservant, but now that I have met You I can think only of Your two broad arms like two great elephant’s trunks. Who deserves this sandal paste more than You two? In the three worlds no one is as handsome as You two.
Very happy, she gave the thick sandal paste to Them. Anointed with it, Krishna and Balarama shone with great splendor.
Then the boys of Vraja also took some of the splendid sandal paste. At that moment Lord Krishna decided to transform the hunchback girl bent in three places into a beautiful straight girl. With both feet stepping on her toes, and with two fingers of an outretched hand grasping her chin, Lord Krishna, the almighty Supreme Personality of Godhead, as everyone watched, suddenly jerked her crooked body.
She suddenly became a beautiful girl straight as a stick, her straightness eclipsing the graceful straightness of the banana tree. Sweetly smiling, and now tormented with amorous desires, she clutched Lord Krishna’s garment.
The maidservant said: O most handsome of men, please come to my house. I cannot leave You. O all-knowing one, O You who know the sweet taste of nectar, O You who humbly give all honor to others, please be kind to me. My heart is tormented with love for You.
Then the gopas burst into laughter and clapped their hands. Lord Krishna smiled and, as Balarama looked on, spoke the following words.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Very beautiful and kind people, who take even strangers to be guests at their homes, live here. That is why Mathura City is blessed with such opulences. After I have finished sightseeing in the city I will surely visit your home.
I will also explain the previous birth of Kubja – In the Treta-yuga a witch named Surpanakha came to the Pancavati-forest where she saw Sri Ramacandra, and developed the desire to have Him for her husband. Seeing that Sri Ramacandra was unmoved, Surpanakha approached His brother Sri Laksmana. Hearing her words, Sri Laksmana became very angry and immediately cut off her nose with a sharp sword. Surpanakha, whose nose was now cut, went to Lanka and told everything that had happened to Ravana. Then she went to Puskara Tirtha to please Sri Mahadeva with harsh penances for 10,000 years, to secure Sri Ramacandra for her husband. Being pleased with her penances, Sri Mahadeva offered her to ask for a boon, and Surpanakha said: “May Sri Ramacandra become my husband!” Sri Mahadeva said: “Now your desires will not be fulfilled, but when Sri Krishna descends in the end of Dvapara Yuga they will be fulfilled!”